"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."
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"A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people."
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"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."
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"Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people."
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"The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience."
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"In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running."
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"We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want."
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"If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit."
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"There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do."
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"Put your expectations on God, not on people."
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"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."
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"People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype."
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"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
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"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."
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"When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand."
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"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
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"And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die."
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"We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong."
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"Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs."
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"Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith."
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